The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government ( NEW YORK EDITION Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the! Post’ OMice at Chicago, sty under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926 > by mall, $8.00 per year. by” nslly46.08 pas-year, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Tl. Price 3 Cents | PILSUDSKI IS TRANSPOK: .. sKERS’ SEA-BOARD STRIKE ALARMS STANDARD OIL Cook, in Name of British Miners, Ake Transfer of Funds Offered a earn ceeeeeinmenntiniemaliemetiaeeetine a aac ace ai ee / COMMUNISTS IN BUENOS AIRES Officials Seized i in Fake “Bomb Plot” (Special to The Daily Worker) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 18. — A sequel to the recent loan from American imperialist bankers to the city of Buenos Aires is the raiding in true “American style” of the head- quarters of the Communist Party of Argentina and the South American secretariat of the Communist Inter- national by the police of the capital, which are famous for their brutality to political prisoners. Get Excuse for Raids. The excuse for the raids was the explosion of a bomb, which as usual did no particular damage, at ie United States embassy. The ambas- sador, Peter A. Jay, was quite willing to make a guess that the explosion was the work of “disgruntled” Com- munists from whom he claims he had received letters protesting the frame- up against Sacco and Vanzetti. Thruout South America the whole labor movement is’ aroused at the menace of death hanging over Sacco and Vanzetti, whose frame up at the hands of the capitalist courts of the United States has been well adver- tised by united front movements of all tendencies, with the Communists, the anarchists. and socialists joining in great demonstrations, See Activities of Police. Several of the leading members of the Communist Party are held by the police, altho the party has frequently made clear its opposition to acts of individual violence and inthis in- stdnce has immediately declared thru its paper “La Internacional” that the bomb so conveniently and harmlessly “planted” at the United States em- bassy is without doubt the work of ihe. police themselves to furnish a excuse for suppressive measures b: the Argentine government, which i: little better than a dictatorship. COURT DELAYS ARRAIGNMENT OF DAUSHERTY Postpones Case Against Grafting Officials NEW YORK, May 18.—The arraign- ment of Harry M. Daugherty, attorney general of the United States in Presi- dent Harding's cabinet, and Thomas W. Miller, formerly alien property cus- todian, on indictments charges them with conspiracy to defraud “the gov- ernment in conection with the trans- fer of stock in the American Metals Company to German owners after the war, was deferred when it was learned that Col. Miller is seriously ill from blood poisoning in his home at Wil- mington, Del. Miller was injured, it was learned, when he fell fram the roof of a barn on his property, and blood poisoning set in. Arrangements were made in the fed- eral court whereby attorneys for Daugherty and Miller will appear Thursday next’ to make whatever mo- tions they choose on the indictments. Rob Bread Trust's Offices. NEW YORK, May 18—A trio of bandits, the leader “of which was masked, backed a dozen men and wo- men employes of the General Baking Company against the wall in the com- pany’s office today and escaped with $6,800 in cash. - By GORDON (Special to The itlantic seaboard by the Marine Trans: forkers of ‘the World, the Standard rikers to man its boats, The strikebreakers were recruited stay, Many Quitting. Even engineers are quitting with he firemen and various large ship- ing companies are fearful lest the trike spread to all ships. One boy, 7 years of age, not only pulled off the hole crew from his own ship, a HAM LEWIS SEES RISE OF ‘THIRD PARTY’ Both Old Parties Are in. Danger Former United States Senator J. ‘Hamilton Lewis, ornate whiskers and Il, returned to Chicago today after a rip to the Hague. In addition to com- menting upon the general situation in Europe, as viewed thru democratic yes, Lewis predicted that this politi- al campaign would see the rise of a hird party movement. “Both major political parties in Mli- mois are in danger,” said the former senator. “Before the fall election there will appear a third force which will! present a remedy for the conditions of | the farmers.” Mr, Lewis was quite perturbed over | the publicity being given Chicago abroad because of its numerous gang murders and yhe reports of its cor- supt politics.” All foreign newspapers, he said, print the Chicago crime news prominently and create the impres- sion--that-people-arequnsafe in this stock-yards center. The former sen- ator fears Chicago gets a bad reputa- tion abroad because of the publicity attendant upon its numerous butch- eries, outside the yards. MARX. CABINET IS EXPECTED TO FALL JUNE 20 Is Regarded Merely as Transition Government BERLIN, May 18. — The cabinet formed by Wilhelm Marx, who retain- ed the members of the Luther cabinet with the exception of Luther, is look- ed on generally as a transition gov- ernment, It is expected to hold office only until June 20 when a referendum will be conducted on the confiscation of the estates of the kaiser and the royal family. Sacco-Vanzetti Meeting Will Be Held in Detroit on Sunday Afternoon DETROIT, May 18.—E, Sormenti of the Italian fraction bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak at the House of the Masses, Gratiot Ave. and St. Aubin Ave., Sun- flay afternoon, May 23, at 2:30, at a Sacco-Vanzetti mass meeting. CASCADEN Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 18.—Very much alarmed My the strike called on the port Workers’ Union of the Industrial Oil company is feverishly recruiting to man Standard Oil tankers laying Bayonne and Constable Rock, which are due to sail for Tampico and er Gulf as well as San Pedro and South American ports, Once these strike- eakers reach Bayonne they are thére¢————_——______________ Texas ofl tanker, but boarded its neighbor, a sister ship of the Texas line, and marched off with all its men. Both were due to sail in a few hours but are now tied up indefinitely. Strike Meeting, Attendance at mass meetings (Continued’on page 2) APPEAL TO FULL BENCH OF STATE SUPREME COURT TO SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI BOSTON, May 18. — William G. ‘Thompson, attorney for Nicola Sac- co and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, an- nounced that he has appealed to the full bench of the state supreme court for a rehearing of arguments which the court earlier in the week had overruled. This appeal came as a surprise to the prosecution. Judge Thayer had prepared to sen- tence Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair. The defense seeks an entire retrial of the case. C.P, OF MEXICO GETS READY FOR ‘TS CONVENTION Congress Will Meet in Mexico City May 21 (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, May 18. — A direct answer to President Calles’ contention that it is impossible for the Me: revolution to, proceed aby mer an it has gone, will be given by fourth national congress of the Com- munist Party of Mexico, which will take up the whole question of the fumire line of mareh of the Mexican proletariat. The congress will meet in Mexico City, May 21-26. Leaders of the party are expected to point out that Calles has not suf- ficiently resisted the aggressions of U. S. imperialism, while at the same time excusing all the shortcomings of his program on the ground of imperialist pressure, Special Conference. The congress itself will be preceded by a special conference of representa- tives from each local, at which the dif- ferences inside the party ranks will be thoroly discussed. The opposition to the central committeee is led by Manuel D. Ramirez. Ramirez or one of the other Vera Cruz comrades will submit a “co-report” following the re, port of Rafael Carrillo, general sec- retary of the party. The Agenda, Principal points on the agenda of the congress are: The coming presi- dential election in. Mexico; the trade union question; the agrarian ques- tion; the struggle against U. S, im- pefialism. Party Influential But Small. The party is still confronted with some of the most elementary tasks. Altho it has indirect influence over relatively wide numbers of workers, and altho individual members of the party have established their unques- tioned personal leadership over many thousands of peasants, the actual membership of the party is still less than 200. in ON PAGE 5---STRIKE rw Heads to! Garden | Daily Worker) | May 18—President) Ff the American Fed-! "and John Coughlin,) 8 and Labor Coun-| ty, are among those, were sent today | _Mass meeting called to address by the stri furriers in Madison Sqpare Garde} next Saturday to in- augurate. they on-wide forty-hour week campal F All labor @ been invited™ attend this meeting, and the harge has asked as Hillman, president of Clothing Workers; Morris Sigm esident of the Inter- national Garment Workers’ Union; general man- ager of the York joint board of the Cloak _ Dressmakers; Ozier Schachtmat Sident of the Furriers’ Labor; I. Budish, of the Cloth © pd Hat Makers; and| a represent of the Big 6 and other union: own to be interested in obtainin e forty-hour week for their wor! Next rday’s meeting will be the | first great. ir meeting at the new! Madison Maré Garden, where the various’ t Mnions will join hands |. in a common ‘Fause. ¢ On 40 Hours. ! the fur shops which | have already ettled on the union's} terms will t in Manhattan Ly-! ceum at 50" tomorrow to vote on} the 40tiour Week demand of the fur-| riers. All’ ballots will then be| counted in Office of the union on} Wednes 2 p. ™., and press rep-| resentati’ invited to be pres-! ent. At five | , Wefnesday after; noon, the g#eral picket committee will have a méeting in Union Hall» At 6 p. m,, all sh@p' chairmen will meet in Beethoven Hi, and when this meet- ing ends at 9 ©’clock, all shop chair- men and members of the general pick- et committeey will proceed to the fur manufacturing district and will picket there until 2280 in the morning. The latest fur striker to be singled out by the manufacturers for arrest is Isadore Shapiro, cahirman of the law. committee»who was arrested this afternoon whils he was in Astoria Hall. Shapiro is charged with simple as- sault on the complaint of some man who claims he was hit last week. The man ,does not know who hit him so he has taken out warrants for any- one whose name he happens to know. Shapiro is already out on bail, and his case will come up for hearing within | @ few days. Coolidge Opposes Increase in Number of Aviation Personnel | WASHINGTON, May 18—President Coolidge has announced his opposition to that portion.of the army five-year aviation buildimg bill which would in- crease the number of air service pre- sonnel. Passaic Barbers Strike for $35 Weekly Wage PASSAIC, N..J., May 18—Journey-| men Barbers of! Clifton, Passaic, Lodi} and Hackensack have gone on strike | for a $35 a week wage. by All-Russian Miners’ Union THREATENED BY By JOHN (Special to The PEPPER. Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 18—Today the fifth congress of the All- Russian Miners’ Union in 1 Cook, secretary of the Briti ion here received a telegram from A. J. ih Miners’ Federation, thanking the Soviet Miners’ Union for its splendid, practical example of international solidarity in offering financial a tance to thi e struggling miners of Great Britain. Cook asked the immediate transfer of the funds placed at his disposal by the Russian union to the Co-operative Wholesale Bank in London in his own name as secretary of the Miners 's’ Federation, and said that the need of the striking miners was great and assistance urgent, The executive council of the All- Russian trade unions had previously transferred all collections for the strikers, amounting to two and a half million roubles, to the Russian Miners’ Congress, to be given by the lat- ter to the British miners, FINNISH LABOR VOTES FOR WORLD TRADE UNION UNITY AT BIG CONVENTION (Special to The Daily Worker) HELSINGFORS, May 17—The convention of the Federation of La- bor of Finland has condemned the splitting tactics of its former lead- ers by voting overwhelmingly not to Join the Amsterdam Internation- al and to support the move for In- ternational Trade union unity. In the newly elected council of the federation are twenty members who stand solidly for world unity and ten reformists. PROVE PRELATE’S VIOLATIONS OF MEXICAN LAW |Papal Delegate Made) False Declarations (Special to The Daily, Worker) MEXICO CITY, May 18.—Announce- ment of the official order for Arch- yishop Caruana to leave the country) Within” six duys have produced Some} }fenge yesterday-and-giso remanded-for | oi- a party—rhe has “none; interesting developments here, among them being the revelations concern- ing the manner of his entry into Mexico. . It has been established by the min- istry of thé interior that Archbishop Caruana’s arrival was on the same} date that the delegates to the conven- tion of*the American Federation of | Labor at El Paso crossed the border | to hold a joint meeting with the Mex-} ican Confederation of Labor. It is fairly well established that he} was known to a number of the dele- gates and that the Mexican immigra- tion officers were ignorant of his iden-/ tity. Concealed His Calling. The archbishop, whose appointment as papal delegate was made after his entry into this country, admits that he told the immigration officials he was a “teacher.” He is said to have-acted as a trans- lator for the American labor delegates and to have been seen on the streets with the American ambassador for two weeks before knew who he was. The government claims that Caru- ana made false statements as to his birth, profession and religion when he entered Mexico and that he has violated article 130 of the constitu- tion. COOLIDGE FAMILY SAID TO HOLD CONVERSATIONS WITH MEDIUM'S GHOSTS (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 18.—Spirit- ual seances are held at the white house in which President Coolidge and members of his official family are central figures, according to testimony today before the house district of Columbia committee hold- ing hearings on the Bloom bill to regulate mediums in Washington. Rose Mackenberg, operative of Harry Houdini, magician, declared she had been Informed by Dr, Jane B. Coates, head of the spiritualist science church of Washington, of the government} BRITISH LABOR VICTIM OF TORY STRIKE REVENGE Three Communists Rail- | roaded by Tory Courts (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, May 18.—With the min- ers left to carry on the struggle prac- | tically alone and with the country re- | covering gradually from the effects of the general strike, the British govern- ment is losing no opportunity to at- tack the labor movement. George Stewart, the acting general | secretary of the Communist Party of | Great Britain, was arraigned today in ao Street court. He was accused of aving on his premises documents, pets if pub hed would have violat- ed the emergency regulations in force | during the strike. He was remanded | for sentence. | Two More. | The secretary of the district com- mittee of the Communist Party in Sal- ford .was found guilty of a like of- |judgment, James Hamer, secretary of the Altringham branch of the party, | was found guilty of similar charges. Miners Confer. The miners’ executive conferred for } an hour and a half with Premier Bald- win today, but failed to reach any} | basis for an understanding. The min-| ers’ representatives will meet Thurs- gotiations with the government and | decide on future action. ‘SUPER-CHRISTIAN ‘DIGS UP ANCIENT LIES ABOUT TURK | Mustapha Kemal burned the city of Smyrna, “looted and murdered merci; lessly and ravished and enslaved maid- ens and matrons,” Henry Morgen- thau, former ambassador to Turkey and super-christian extraordinary, pro- tests in a letter sent to the foreign relations committee of the United States senate, against the ratification of the Lausanne treaty. ity tales and declaring Mustapha Ke- mal “a monster,” Morgentheau adds that, anyhow, American trade with Turkey “forms a very negligibje frac- tion of our commerce” as an argument against diplomatic relations, seeming- ly unaware that even small fractions are not overlooked by our Wusy im- perialists, not to mention the fact that Turkish petroleum under Mohammed- an rule smells as good to Rockefeller as that held under the flags of Morg- enthau’s approved “Christian powers.” MEXICAN WORKERS day to consider the results of the ne-} NEW YORK CITY, May 18—Digging | |up from the archives of mouldy lies | j the fairy tale that the Turks under | After reciting all the exploded atroc- POLISH BARONS | Mobilize Army i in Posen for Attack (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, May 18 — The newly |created hegemony of the militarist, |Pilsudski is threatened by rebellious landlords in the West of Poland, who have remained loyal to the old govern- ment. General Haller, arch-enemy of |Pilsudski is now in Posen recruiting }a volunteer army for the recapture of jthe government. He is supported by the rich landowners of Posen among whom are Prince Radziwill, richest |land ow#er in the country. Haller is |reported to be raising an army of |50,000 volunteers and Radziwill is quoted as saying that he believes an army of 100,000 can be gotten together for a march on Warsaw. Minorities Active. | | | | | While Pilsudski and his supporters late going ahead with the sétting up '6f the new government, these rumors from Posen are causing them much disquietude. Their uneasiness is being further increased by the unpleasant jnews that the national minorities in White Russia and Polish-Ukraine are taking advantage of the disordered state of affairs to get in some licks {for their own independence, The Pilsudski government is_ en- gaged in widespread propaganda to the effect that it has done and will jnot do anything that may be taken as ‘opposition to constitutional govern- ment. The instability of its present Political situation is signified by the offer of the ministry of foreign affairs to ex-premier Skrzinski, whose cabin- et fell several weeks ago and preci- pitated the present is. Another reason for the overtures to Skrzinski may be the anxiety of the | Pilsudski government to“maintain re- lationships with France, Poland's banker, Pilsudski’s main strength lies in his influence with the army. jAs to political support in the nature Last year he formed a\party of his own called (the National Progressive Party. It {failed to return a single deputy to | Parliament. So that Pilsudski is faced with the necessity of following in the steps of previous government leaders jin that he has had to piece together a government out of representatives of various parties. Alienates S. P. | There are indications however, that , Pilsudski is alienating the Polish So- {cialist Party which had participated in previous governments, The Social- ist Party in Poland is a strong politi- eal factor and may cause Pilsudski trouble if he continues his present \policy. The Socialist Party, however, is put in a dilemma also. [f it wishes to set up an opposition to Pilsudski it will find itself in the unpleasant position of fighting the Pilsudski gov- ernment at the same time the rich }landlords .are mobilizing an army for the same purpose. Afraid of Tax. The opposition of the landlords to Pilsudski, while parading under the flag of constitutionalism, is doubtless founded actually on their fear that Pilsudski may re-instate the income tax—which has not been enforced for two and a half years. Two Lumberjacks Lose Lives in Forest Fire WARREN, Pa, May 18.—Two Aus- trian lumberjacks, whose names have not been learned, were burned to death in the Allegheny National For- est fire, which is raging beyond con- | trol 1 Elk and McKean counties. Al |ready 5,000 acres of timberland have | been burned over and the fire is rag- ing over an area eight miles long and two miles wide. SEND IN A SUB! DEMONSTRATE AGAINST U. S. IMPERIALISM AND HAIL SOVIETS ON FIRST OF MAY TAMPICO, Mexico—(By Mail.)—Twenty thousand workers of this city the seances at the executive man- | deciured May First a day off and left the town stand silent and paralyzed sion. What. next will come from the while they gathered to celebrate labor's holiday under the disdainful eyes white house? of the local bosses who retreated to their balconies to watch the great parade in which the labor unions joined with floats and banners. These floats and banners carried many slogans asserting the aspirations of the workers and must indeed have caused the bosses to blink with such Moscow or bust! Don’t bust before you get a sub—but get 5 subs and you Re can have your bust. (Continued on page 2) eames SS The Future Belongs to the Youth! With a Big Our program will include the fol- Pioneer Dancing Class. Chairman: Pioneer, } P lowing! 6. Pioneer in the Soviet Republic, Aamteds , (| ION 1. Grand Pioneer March. by J. M. Olgin. mission; Adults, 50c; children, THE YOUNG PI / EERS c 0 N c E R T 2. School Days (play, 2 acts). 7. Why a Leninist Youth Camp? lic, ir ‘ * 3. International Workers’ Chil- Pioneer Speaker. aR \ 2 Celebrating the Opening of the:Campaign for the Sunday, May 23, 1926, 1 P. M. in dren's Symphony Orchsetra. 8. The Pioneers and the /Working aaeniene? feo Pioneers of Amer} : 4. Why? Play in 5 scenes, Class, by W. W. Weihstone. ca, District No, 3. 8. Don Dist, LENINIST YOUTH CAMP WEBSTER HALL, 119 E. 11th St., N. Y. C. Hae Yo se le i d 5. Classical and Folk dances by the 9% Org. of Dist. No, 2. 4 i